“The Queen is dead, long live the King.” The history of the world has revealed only a few lasting arguments for political legitimacy, and the most venerable of all is a hereditary monarchy. In the modern age, no monarch has been the equal of Her M ...
Balmoral Castle in Scotland, one of the personal residences of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, was yesterday the unprecedented scene for a new British prime minister to begin office. Liz Truss, chosen by members of Britain’s Conservative Party, was ...
At first glance, the most remarkable thing about the new Soviet leader was that he seemed to have a pulse. Mikhail Gorbachev became the eighth leader of the totalitarian state on March 11, 1985. At age 54, he became general secretary of the Communist ...